For someone just beginning to submit (and perhaps a novice poet as well), SUBSCRIBING to some journals is a good start. (Poets should support poetry journals. Who else is going to?)
An afternoon at your local university library is a good place to get a feel for different journals, which ones have the sort of poems you like to read. A quick glance through the contributors' page will tell you how open a magazine is to novices. There are also a huge number of e-zines out there, with the whole range of "levels."
Poet's Market also lists how open journals are to beginners.
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